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New Books in Military History
Frank Jacob, “Japanese War Crimes during World War II: Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence” (Praeger, 2018)
Frank Jacob
Japanese War Crimes during World War II
Atrocity and the Psychology of Collective Violence
Praeger, 2018

New Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Japanese StudiesNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 22, 2020 Kelly McFall

When you mention Japanese War crimes in World War Two, you’ll often get different responses from different generations.  The oldest among us will talk about the Bataan Death March.  Younger people, coming of age in the 1990s, will mention the Rape of Nanking or the comfort women forced into service... Read More
Rhodri Jeffreys Jones, “The Nazi Spy Ring in America: Hitler’s Agents, the FBI and the Case that Stirred the Nation” (Georgetown UP, 2020)
Rhodri Jeffreys Jones
The Nazi Spy Ring in America
Hitler’s Agents, the FBI and the Case that Stirred the Nation
Georgetown University Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 13, 2020 Craig Sorvillo

In his new book, The Nazi Spy Ring in America: Hitler’s Agents, the FBI & the Case that Stirred the Nation (Georgetown University Press, 2020), Rhodri Jeffreys Jones tells the dramatic story of the Nazi spy ring in America. In the mid-1930s just as the United States was embarking on a policy... Read More
Chris Lombardi, “I Ain’t Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Deserters and Objectors to America’s Wars” (The New Press, 2020)
Chris Lombardi
I Ain’t Marching Anymore
Dissenters, Deserters and Objectors to America’s Wars
The New Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society October 9, 2020 Colin Mustful

Before the U.S. Constitution had even been signed, soldiers and new veterans protested. Dissent, the hallowed expression of disagreement and refusal to comply with the government’s wishes, has a long history in the United States. Soldier dissenters, outraged by the country’s wars or egregious violations in conduct, speak out and... Read More
Jon Lindsay, “Information Technology and Military Power” (Cornell UP, 2020)
Jon Lindsay
Information Technology and Military Power

Cornell University Press, 2020

New Books in Military HistoryNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network October 7, 2020 John Sakellariadis

Many assume that information technology will one day clear away the “fog of war.” But as Jon Lindsay shows in Information Technology and Military Power (Cornell UP, 2020), the digitization of warfare can also increase confusion and misunderstanding. To understand why, it is important to understand the micro-foundations of military... Read More
Christopher Capozzola, “Bound By War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century” (Basic Books, 2020)
Christopher Capozzola
Bound By War
How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century
Basic Books, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 6, 2020 Holger Droessler

Ever since American troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the U.S. armed forces. In Bound By War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century (Basic Books, 2020), historian Christopher Capozzola reveals this forgotten history, showing how war... Read More
Brandon M. Schechter, “The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Brandon M. Schechter
The Stuff of Soldiers
A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects
Cornell University Press, 2019

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies October 6, 2020 Steven Seegel

The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects (Cornell University Press) uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse array of things―from spoons to tanks―to show how a wide... Read More
Stephen C. Kepher, “COSSAC: Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan and the Genesis of Operation OVERLORD” (Naval Institute Press, 2020)
Stephen C. Kepher
COSSAC
Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan and the Genesis of Operation OVERLORD
Naval Institute Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in British StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network October 5, 2020 Lipkowitz and Scott

D-Day, June 6, 1944, looms large in both popular and historical imaginations as the sin qua non, or single defining moment, of the Second World War. Though there were other d-days launched across multiple theaters throughout Europe, Africa, and the Pacific, only one endures as a potent symbol for the... Read More
Damien Lewis, “Churchill’s Hellraisers: The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress” (Citadel Press, 2020)
Damien Lewis
Churchill's Hellraisers
The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress
Citadel Press, 2020

New Books in British StudiesNew Books in German StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & Society September 29, 2020 Mark Klobas

On the night of March 27, 1945, a small group of partisans and British soldiers from the elite Special Air Service (SAS) stormed two villas in northern Italy that were serving as the headquarters of the German 14th Army. In Churchill’s Hellraisers: The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi... Read More
Geoffrey Plank, “Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Geoffrey Plank
Atlantic Wars
From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in World Affairs September 29, 2020 Charles Prior

For the people of the Dawnland, they were floating islands. The sails resembled clouds, and the men gathered on deck looked like bears. When Europeans came ashore, whether Danes in what would become Newfoundland, English settlers in the land they named ‘Virginia’, their mastery of the oceans did not translate... Read More
Gregory A. Daddis, “Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines” (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Gregory A. Daddis
Pulp Vietnam
War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines
Cambridge University Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in JournalismNew Books in Military HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books Network September 25, 2020 Rebekah Buchanan

In his compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines (Cambridge UP, 2020), Gregory Daddis explores how men’s adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter... Read More

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